Second Carlist War

The Second Carlist War (1846-1849) was a short civil war fought by the reactionary Carlists against the liberal government of Spain in the Catalonia region. The Carlists rebelled after Queen Isabella II of Spain decided to wed Francis, Duke of Cadiz instead of the Carlist pretender Infante Don Carlos, and regent Maria Christina made matters worse in 1848 by revoking Ramon Maria Narvaez's constitution. Narvaez nevertheless sided with the government, leading the counterattack against the rebels in Galicia as Fernando Fernandez de Cordova crushed the rebels in Catalonia. Between 3,000 and 10,000 people were killed in the brief Second Carlist War, none of which took place in the Basque Country.